Thanks for this. Oddly enough, I used an old version of AllChars on my
previous set-up, and found it ideal for the job (very easy to
remember!). Trouble was, it wouldn't work when I changed to WinXP.
Should have downloaded an updated one - silly me...
Gareth Curtis
Johnny Andersson wrote:
I just tried Alt-148 with OOo Writer 1.1.5 and the "ö" was inserted
exactly where it should be. Seems like your problem is not a OOo bug
or maybe there is a setting somewhere... I use a Swedish keyboard and
Alt-148 gives me exactly the same result as the ö key.
An easier way to insert special characters is to use the freeware
AllChars. It also have some more features than just convert stuff
like "Ctrl c o" = "©" etc. You can create macros, like "/ja" =
"Johnny Andersson" or "/time" = "19:00:18" (current time in this
case) or whatever you want it to mean. It works in ALL applications
(as far as I noticed so far).
Have a look at http://allchars.zwolnet.com/
I find it very handy and it's free of course.
Johnny Andersson
Den 2006-01-15 12:55:00 skrev CPHennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Fri January 6 2006 13:57, Gareth Curtis wrote:
Using OOo 2.0.1 with WinXP.
I doubt if I'm the only person in this world who can remember the Alt
numbers of some of the more common special characters, especially those
with accents and umlauts. Besides, using these is often quicker than
fumbling around the Special Character facility on OOo.
One oddity I've noticed with Alt-148 (ö) is that the cursor always
seems
to move back such that the character appears before instead of after
the
one I've just typed. So far as I remember, this happened with OOo
1.1.x.
(It may also happen with other special characters, but none I routinely
use.)
Is there some reason for this, am I missing something, or is this
(admittedly) a very small bug?
Gareth,
An alternative to using either the Alt sequence or the special
Chars dialog,
is to setup an autocorrect so that when you type "o\:" it is
autocorrected to
ö.
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